Salesforce Acquires Bookmarking Startup Clipboard for More Than $10M

Salesforce has acquired Clipboard, a social bookmarking service that had built interesting hooks for saving rich Web content across devices.
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The Data-Driven Enterprise Marketing Revolution

Big vendors are duking it out for ownership of consumer data.
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AppGratis Gets the Boot & WhatsApp Ain’t Selling: The AllThingsD Week in Review 4/07/13 — 4/13/13

The top 10 stories of the week, in one convenient serving.
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The Death of Enterprise Technologies Is Greatly Exaggerated

It’s overly simplistic thinking to predict the “death” of legacy on-premises technologies such as Oracle and SAP.
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AppMesh, a Mobile-First Customer-Tracking App, Launches

CRM, without all the typing.
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Twitter Untangles Its Overgrown Org Chart

A look at Twitter’s new and improved organizational structure, including the company’s problematic history between departments.
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Salesforce to Raise $1 Billion in Debt to Fund Acquisitions

Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff is about to go shopping for acquisitions, and he’ll have $1 billion to spend. The company just announced a plan to raise its debt by issuing convertible notes due in 2018. Salesforce says it will use the proceeds to fund “possible acquisitions of, or investments in, complementary businesses, services or technologies, working capital and capital expenditures.”

Tracx, Social Media’s Big-Data Player, Lands $3.5 Million From Flybridge Capital

Pivoting from listening to social media to doing something about it.
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Salesforce Soundly Beats Earnings Expectations for Q4

Closing out a $3 billion year.
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Meet the New Salesforce.com, All About Service

The social enterprise is so 2012.
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